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I do agree that both Social Security and Medicare have become socialism.
Was/Is Social Security supposed to be socialism? Not the way it's written. It's supposed to be the govt. saving MY money and giving it back to me when I retire.
It has BECOME a socialist program because it was instantly used to pay for people over age 65 who had never been a part of it. So for the first few decades...the govt. handed over working people's money to retirees who had never paid a dime into the system.
And now we have todays workers paying for yesterdays workers retirements instead of the way it was supposed to be.
Typical govt. stupidity.
That's why Social Security is always on the brink of bankruptcy.
Bureaucrats already have "solved" the problem they created themselves by proposing to raise the Social Security tax limit. That will remove any aura of legitimacy of Social Security as it was originally intended and turn it into an outright welfare program for older people.
Socialism.
The only reason that socialism has survived in Europe is because the United States federal govt. is full of power hungry bureaucrats who want to be the "policeman of the world" with a huge overbloated military.
If the countries in Europe no longer could count on the U.S. to protect them militarily...and had to spend their own money on their own military...it would be a different story.
And even with the U.S. doing that (and fucking our citizens out of our money to do so), European countries are still on the verge of defaulting on loans because they simply can't afford to pay for so many people on the dole.
Want to see what socialism will do to a country? Just look at Europe for your answers. If you like what you see...then I would say that you are socialist and should be proud of it.
If you don't...then you are a capitalist...like me. And I'm proud to be one.
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